One of the simplest - and most popular - ways to start cracking down on Big Pharma is simply to allow Medicare to negotiate discounts for pharmaceutical drugs. Congress has barred Medicare from negotiating the best possible price, leaving the program payi

Congress is expected to vote next week on CHIP funding. Sign the petition today demanding Congress reauthorize CHIP paid for by closing tax loopholes benefiting the richest 1% and wealthy corporations, not by cutting Medicare and other critical services.

Millionaires and their political friends in Congress and the White House want working Americans to pay more, work longer and get less while they continue to get bigger tax breaks and retire on fatter and fatter million-dollar pensions.

Instead of protecting access to health care for our nation's most vulnerable citizens, Republicans are proposing that corporate tax rates are cut from 35 to 20 percent while slashing services to seniors and the poor.

The political tide has turned on health care. Bernie Sanders became the most popular politician in America, fighting for Medicare for all. Paul Ryan just pulled the Republican bill and the GOP has no strategy forward.

Amidst all the chaotic noise emanating from Washington, DC, little snippets of news keep slipping out reminding us that the US health care system remains monumentally dysfunctional, and that the dysfunction serves the interests of the system's insiders.

Thousands of Americans will celebrate their birthday today and be eligible to receive Medicare benefits. Yet, these benefits are now in jeopardy thanks to Speaker Ryans radical agenda that calls for ending traditional Medicare.

Republicans plan to ram through a budget that could gut Medicare and Medicaid, increase prescription drug prices, and take away health coverage for over 30 million Americans - all while providing billions of dollars in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy.

One week after being elected President Donald Trump is backtracking on a key campaign promise. Instead of protecting Social Security and Medicare he now appears open to a grand privatization scheme being promoted by none other than House Speaker Paul Ryan

The law that established Medicare Part D explicitly prohibits the prescription drug program from negotiating lower drug costs for beneficiaries. The Medicare Fair Drug Pricing Act would allow Medicare to negotiate prices for prescription drugs.